Gale Warning Posted, Advisory Swell Continues

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Alerts

A Small Craft Advisory is posted for all Maui County waters through 6 p.m. Sunday for northeast winds up to 30 knots and rough seas up to 15 feet.

A Gale Warning is in effect for the Alenuihaha channel through 6 p.m. Sunday for winds up to 35 knots and rough seas up to 18 feet.

A High Surf Advisory is in effect for the east facing shores of Maui and Molokai through Sunday at 6 p.m. Surf heights of 7 to 10 foot faces are expected.

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**Click directly on the images below to make them larger. Charts include: Maui County projected winds, tides, swell direction & period and expected wave heights.**

Maui Surf Forecast

North: Wave heights are expected to be knee high or less. The best breaks could get up to chest/shoulder high. Trade swell continues for Hana area and spots open to trade swell with wave heights up to a few feet overhead on the sets.

West:  Wave heights knee/waist high are expected today out of the south-southwest. Spots shadowed by other islands will be pretty flat.

South: The south-southwest is expected to bring knee/waist high waves today – just leftovers. Breaks open to the trade swell could get up to head high or bigger on the sets.

An advisory level east-northeast trade swell will continue to affect windward coasts through the weekend.

Our current south-southwest continues to trend down today.

A new northwest swell is expected to overlap and shows for the weekend. A slightly larger northwest swell is expected to build midweek but be rather short-lived.

Keep in mind, surf heights are measured on the face of the wave from trough to crest. Heights vary from beach to beach, and at the same beach, from break to break.  

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Image: NOAA / NWS

Image: NOAA / NWS

Image: NOAA / NWS

Image: NOAA / NWS

Image: NOAA / NWS

Image: NOAA / NWS

Image: NOAA / NWS